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27 January North Korea Special Weapons News

  • Threat of Aggression Comes From North Korea, Not U.S., Bolton Says Washington File 27 Jan 2003 -- The threat of aggression in the Asia-Pacific region comes from North Korea's communist rulers and not from the United States, according to Under Secretary of State John Bolton
  • Bolton: North Korea Must End Nuclear Program in Verifiable Way Washington File 27 Jan 2003 -- The United States wants North Korea to eliminate its nuclear weapons program in "a comprehensive and verifiable way," according to Under Secretary of State John Bolton
  • Li Peng on Sino-Korean friendship KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- Li Peng, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, said that China would continue to maintain friendly relations with the DPRK, noting that China and the DPRK, neighborly countries, have a long history of friendship
  • GNP's true colors revealed KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- The Grand National Party of South Korea on Jan. 23 demanded a halt to the 9th North-South Ministerial Talks, saying that the talks "are becoming a unilateral propaganda place of the north" and the north's call for national cooperation incites troubles between South Korea and the U.S. and between South Korean political parties.
  • U.S. denounced for arms buildup KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- A spokesman for the National Democratic Front of South Korea in a statement on Jan. 24 urged the Bush administration to immediately stop beefing up its armed forces to invade the north around the Korean Peninsula and accede to the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty with the DPRK as required by the Korean nation and the international community
  • Minju Joson on U.S. plan for war against north KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- The new "operation plan" recently being worked out by the U.S. imperialists shows that they are frantically striving to stifle the DPRK behind the scene of their clamor for "peaceful solution" of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula
  • KCNA on U.S. dangerous military moves KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk left the Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 23 for the waters off the Korean Peninsula, according to a Kyodo report. Deploying the U.S. aircraft carrier supposed to sail to Iraq in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. asserts that the action was taken in consideration of the tensions escalating between the south and the north after the north's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • KCNA dismisses proposed "exchange of statements or letters" as untrustworthy KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- High-ranking officials of the U.S. State Department were reported to have said that there is no possibility today any treaty of non-aggression would pass congress. They even hinted that it would be possible for the U.S. to provide security guarantee to North Korea if it dismantles its "nuclear weapons programs" by exchanging letters or official statements
  • Sophistry of political dwarfs berated KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- Takami Eto, member of the House of Representative from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, recently passed strictures on the fact that Prime Minister Koizumi apologized for the past crimes of Japan during his visit to the DPRK last year and described the international criticism of Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine as intervention in the internal affairs of Japan
  • Rodong Sinmun on inviolable dignity of DPRK KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- DPRK is an invincible country which has demonstrated its high dignity and tremendous might under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and a great motherland that provides the people with a worthy life and happiness
  • Working-level contact held between organizations in north and south KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- A working-level contact took place here from January 21 to 24 between a delegation of the national reconciliation council and a delegation of the preparatory committee for the headquarters for the promotion of 2003 national joint functions of South Korea, reunification movement organizations in the north and the south
  • Meeting held for reconnection of inter-Korean rail and road links KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- The second meeting of the panel for reconnection of inter-Korean rail and road links took place here from Jan. 22 to 25. At the meeting the north and the south sides of Korea referred to the fact that ground-breaking ceremonies were held in September last year to reconnect inter-Korean rail and road links and various preparations for the project have been pushed forward
  • DPRK Foreign Ministry spokesman on "multi-party talks" KCNA 27 Jan 2003 -- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea today answered a question put by KCNA as regards the U.S. recent moves to internationalize the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula




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